粪产碱杆菌青霉素G酰化酶在大肠杆菌中组成型表达及分离纯化

将粪产碱杆菌青霉素G酰化酶基因构建重组表达质粒pKKFPGA ,pKKFPGA再转化宿主菌DH5α,所得重组菌不需诱导便能高效表达青霉素G酰化酶 ,表达量达 2590u L ,比野生型粪产碱杆菌表达量高432倍 ,其菌体比活力达300 (u L) A₆₀₀。菌体破碎后的上清液经DEAE-SepharoseCL 6B离子交换层析和Butyl-SepharoseCL 4B疏水层析 ,即可得纯度提高 20倍、比活为 686u mg的青霉素G酰化酶 ,两步纯化的总收率达 91%。Western印迹分析表明5%的原前体青霉素酰化酶在胞内形成了包涵体 ,说明其成熟的限速步骤在胞内的运输阶段.     

Regulation of steroid hormone biosynthesis. Identification of precursors of a phosphoprotein targeted to the mitochondrion in stimulated rat adrenal cortex cells.

Two short-lived precursor proteins, pp37 and pp32, of the mitochondrial phosphoprotein pp30 (formerly denoted as ib) have been detected in Bt2cAMP-stimulated rat adrenal cortex cells, incubated at 25 degrees C or with 1,10-ortho-phenanthroline at 37 degrees C. Subsequently, these two precursor proteins were also identified in cells incubated at 37 degrees C, where they are present only at low levels due to their short half-life. pp30 is produced in several steroidogenic tissues in response to trophic hormone or second messenger analogue. pp37 and pp32 are also phosphoproteins located in the mitochondrion that are produced in response to cAMP analogue and give rise to proteolytic peptide maps similar to that of pp30. As for pp30, inhibition of cytosolic translation prevents the production of pp37 and pp32. The larger precursor protein pp37 has an apparent molecular mass of 37 kDa, an isoelectric point of approximately 7.1, and a half-life at 37 degrees C of 3-4 min. Pulse-chase studies indicate that this protein is processed into the smaller protein, pp32, which has an apparent molecular mass of 32 kDa, an isoelectric point of approximately 6.4, and a half-life at 37 degrees C of 3-4 min. This latter protein is the immediate precursor of pp30. Since ortho-phenanthroline inhibits the mitochondrial processing protease, while the lower incubation temperature slows both protein import and protease processing, the experimental conditions necessary to detect these proteins are consistent with pp37 being a precursor protein that contains two cleavable presequences and is imported into the mitochondrion. The sequential removal of these sequences produces the mature protein pp30.     

青霉素G酰化酶β亚基Ser^579,Arg^580的定点突变研究

According to the comparison of amino acid sequence between PGA (Penicillin G Acylase) and PBPs (Penicillin Binding Protein), We suggest that No. 565-595 peptide fragment in beta-subunit of PGA may be a substrate-binding site of enzyme. Plasmid pTZGA was constructed by cloning the 2.6 kb PGA gene of pWGA into phagemid pTZ18U The technique of site-specific mutagenesis was used to study the role of residue No. 579 (Ser) and No. 580 (Arg) of PGA. Four kinds of mutants were obtained (Ser579-->Gly579, Arg580-->Gly580, Arg580-->Glu580, Arg580-->Lys580), both Glu580 and Gly580 mutants showed no activity of enzyme and Lys580 mutant remained 30% and Gly579 mutant kept 70% activity of wilde type. The same protein expression of four mutants according to the results of ELISA indicate that mutation does not affect the expression of PGA, but Arg580 residue may be essential for substrate-binding or catalysis of PGA.     

Mechanism of signal peptide cleavage in the biosynthesis of the major lipoprotein of the Escherichia coli outer membrane

On treatment of Escherichia coli cells with globomycin, a glyceride-containing precursor of the major outer membrane lipoprotein accumulates in the cytoplasmic membrane (Hussain, M., Ichihara, S., and Mizushima, S. (1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 3707-3712). When the envelope fraction from such cells was incubated in a suitable buffer, this precursor could be processed to the mature lipoprotein. The processing involved removal of the signal peptide and subsequent acylation of the NH2 terminus thus bared. Two types of peptidase and an acylation enzyme(s) were found to be involved in these processes. The enzyme that cleaves the signal peptide, called signal peptidase in this paper, had many unique properties: being highly resistant to high temperature, having a wide optimum pH range, and being highly sensitive to detergents. The other peptidase(s), called signal peptide peptidase in this paper, was assumed to be responsible for the digestion of the signal peptide that had been cleaved from the precursor lipoprotein. This enzyme was rather heat-sensitive. Thus the processing from the precursor to the mature lipoprotein at a high temperature resulted in accumulation of a peptide that was most probably the intact signal peptide. The third enzyme(s) involved in the processing was the one that is responsible for acylation of the newly bared NH2 terminus of the lipoprotein. The enzyme activity was also lost at 80 degrees C. In the light of these findings, the biosynthetic pathway of the lipoprotein is discussed.     

Expression and purification of extracellular penicillin G acylase in Bacillus subtilis

Penicillin G acylase (PGA) is one of the most important enzymes for the production of semisynthetic beta-lactam antibiotics and their key intermediates. To enhance its expression, the PGA gene from Bacillus megaterium was amplified by PCR and subcloned into an expression vector under the control of the P43 promoter. The resulting construct was transferred into Bacillus subtilis WB600 and the transformant producing the most PGA was selected and designated SIBAS205. In contrast to the parent cells, which have to be induced by phenylacetic acid and cultured at 28 and 25 degrees C successively to produce PGA, the recombinant cells needed neither induction nor thermoregulation during fermentation at 37 degrees C. PGA was secreted and reached an expression level of 40 U/mL under optimized conditions. The enzyme was separated by centrifugation and purified by Al(2)O(3) adsorption and phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B hydrophobic chromatography with a yield of 85%. The purified enzyme had a specific activity of 45 U/mg protein.     

Improving the growth rate of Escherichia coli DH5alpha at low temperature through engineering of GroEL/S chaperone system

GroEL/S is a molecular chaperone system in Escherichia coli which not only assists the folding of intracellular proteins but also affects the cellular activity against the change of environmental condition. Here we show that the growth rate of E. coli DH5alpha can be improved at low temperature by expressing a GroEL/S variant achieved through irrational protein engineering approach. The GroELS variant (GroELS(var)) accelerating the growth of E. coli DH5alpha was screened through enrichment culture of the mutant libraries obtained by random mutagenesis. E. coli DH5alpha harboring the groELS(var) gene exhibited approximately 1.5-2 times higher growth rate compared to the strain with wild-type GroELS at 15-30 degrees C. At 10 degrees C, a temperature that the growth of E. coli DH5alpha almost stops, the GroELS(var) triggered the growth of E. coli DH5alpha. We identified that seven nucleotides of groELS gene and six amino acids of the GroELS were changed through the mutagenesis and screening. Site directed mutagenic analysis revealed that H360 in GroEL(var) is the most crucial residue determining the activity of GroELS(var) and more than one of the other residues in GroEL(var) may be additionally involved in the activity of GroELS(var). The improvement of growth rate induced by the GroELS(var) was observed only in the strain DH5alpha and not detected in other E. coli strains, such as BL21, BW25113, codon+, JM110, Top10, and XL1-blue.     

Purification of a site-specific endonuclease, I-Sce II, encoded by intron 4 alpha of the mitochondrial coxI gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

We have purified to near homogeneity a site-specific, double-stranded DNA endonuclease (I-Sce II) encoded by intron 4 alpha (aI4 alpha) of the yeast mitochondrial coxI gene. Our purification starts with a high salt extract of mitochondria isolated from a yeast strain that overproduces the enzyme because of a block in splicing of aI4 alpha. The final step of purification is an affinity column consisting of covalently bound double-stranded DNA multimers of a synthetic sequence, 5'-TTGGTCATCCAGAAGTAT-3', which contains the I-Sce II cleavage/recognition site. Typical yields of enzyme are 3-5% with a specific activity of approximately 500,000 units/mg, where 1 unit of activity cleaves 50 ng of DNA substrate/h at 30 degrees C. I-Sce II has a monomer molecular mass of 31 kDa as estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Active enzyme purifies as a 55-kDa species, which we presume to be a homodimer. I-Sce II monomer comigrates with an in vivo synthesized mitochondrial translation product made in the strain that overproduces the enzyme. We conclude that I-Sce II is derived by proteolytic processing of a precursor polypeptide, p62, encoded by an in-frame fusion of coxI exons 1-4 with the downstream aI4 alpha reading frame. I-Sce II is most active at pH 7.5 and at 20-30 degrees C. Endonuclease activity is sensitive to salt and is dependent upon Mg2+ or Mn2+, but is unaffected by inclusion of ATP or GTP. I-Sce II is the first intron-encoded protein to be purified and characterized from yeast mitochondria.     

以聚丙烯腈纤维为载体制备固定化青霉素G酰化酶的研究

以酸部分水解聚丙烯腈纤维为载体 ,以戊二醛为交联剂 ,共价键结合制备了固定化胞外青霉素G酰化酶。当水解后的载体中 NH2 基含量为 690 μmol g和含水量为 64%时 ,对酶蛋白的固定量达 1 0 0mg g以上 ,固定化酶的活力达 2 30 0IU g ,酶活力总产率为 30 % ,固定化效率为 56%。酶活力的总产率和固定化率随加酶量的增加而降低。该酶可以将浓度为 2 5%～1 2 5%的青霉素G钾盐水解 98%以上。批投青霉素G钾盐为 1 0g,酶负荷为 1 50IU g(PGK) ,经2 0批水解反应后 ,剩余酶活力为 80 %。用二硫基苏醣醇处理固定化酶 ,对水解青霉素G钾盐的操作稳定性有促进作用。固定化酶的室温保存半衰期为 1 30d。用戊二醛和硼氢化钠溶液处理固定化酶后 ,酶活力的室温保存稳定性有所降低。     

Characterization of the RNA processing enzyme RNase III from wild type and overexpressing Escherichia coli cells in processing natural RNA substrates.

1. A precursor to small stable RNA, 10Sa RNA, accumulates in large amounts in a temperature sensitive RNase E mutant at non-permissive temperatures, and somewhat in an rnc (RNase III-) mutant, but not in an RNase P- mutant (rnp) or wild type E. coli cells. 2. Since p10Sa RNA was not processed by purified RNase E and III in customary assay conditions, we purified p10Sa RNA processing activity about 700-fold from wild type E. coli cells. 3. Processing of p10Sa RNA by this enzyme shows an absolute requirement for a divalent cation with a strong preference for Mn2+ over Mg2+. Other divalent cations could not replace Mn2+. 4. Monovalent cations (NH+4, Na+, K+) at a concentration of 20 mM stimulated the processing of p10Sa RNA and a temperature of 37 degrees C and pH range of 6.8-8.2 were found to be optimal. 5. The enzyme retained half of its p10Sa RNA processing activity after 30 min incubation at 50 degrees C. 6. Further characterization of this activity indicated that it is RNase III. 7. To further confirm that the p10Sa RNA processing activity is RNase III, we overexpressed the RNase III gene in an E. coli cells that lacks RNase III activity (rnc mutant) and RNase III was purified using one affinity column, agarose.poly(I).poly(C). 8. This RNase III preparation processed p10Sa RNA in a similar way as observed using the p10Sa RNA processing activity purified from wild type E. coli cells, confirming that the first step of p10Sa RNA processing is carried out by RNase III.